The problem with monotheism is that a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. It is that consciousness striving upward, rather than any definite form it might happen to manifest and find security and company in. More the light shining through the film than the images on it. So that’s why our mental and social frames mean so much to us. They are our form and what we fill out.

Liberal and conservative are how this plays out in society. As liberalism is that dynamic pushing out in all directions. Thus its tendency towards globalism and identity politics. Like light, it goes forever and manifests everything.

While conservatism is more about the cultural and civil forms in which it congregates and manifests. So the emotional striving of liberalism, versus the social structure and order of conservatism. One calling the other fascists and the other calling the first anarchists. The only middle ground is to get far enough away that you can sustain some perspective.

As Frost observed; “If you are not liberal when you are young, you have no heart. While if you are not conservative when you are old, you have no head.”

That everything is connected, doesn’t make it singular, only networked.

We can sense that being in the other, only by being completely neutral to them. Otherwise our minds close around our own judgements and needs.

Our minds are like a flashlight. It greatly illuminates a few things, to the expense of blinding us to much else, that might otherwise take effort to see.